Camden, Tennessee
95 students participated
Poll Analysis - Pre-selected options
Personal Intangible Wishes
1st = worthwile use of time 2nd = good feeling
7th = role model 6th = meeting new people & putting own values into
practice
Personal Tangible Wishes
1st = class credits 2nd (tie) = letters of recommendation and apprenticeships 3rd
= mentors
11th = TV coverage 10th = published 9th = role model and recommendations
Wishes for the Community
1st = auditorium, skate park etc. 2nd = computers etc.
5th = inexpensive and good childcare 4th = library upgrades
Reasons for NOT Volunteering
1st = no time 2nd = not know where or what to do and need money
14th = need transportation 13th = parents not approve 12th (tie) = needs
to be fun and uncool
Volunteer 5 hours a week
During school year?
Yes = 59 No = 20 (7 of the 20 will volunteer during summer)
During summer?
Yes = 69
Currently volunteer?
Yes = 29
Poll Analysis - Hand Written Comments
Random Sampling
Trades
"Meet a famous movie star."
"Do it during school so it could be like a class." (YES!)
"Lower driving age to 16."
"Material things in trade for community service is absurd. Community is not just the people that live around you, it is you also." (Send AW book to Jason Jones and note---include Redemption catalog)
"Homework pass."
"For every 1,000 hours get one big prize like a car or house." '[Don't know what houses cost in Camden, but we expect volunteers would be billing out at about $100 an hour!]
"A meeting with a high official."
Volunteers
"I would help but I just hardly have time, but I would do it."
"I work for a Volunteer Fire Department."
"I volunteer with the Lioness Club. It makes me, as a teen-ager, feel like I'm making a difference."
"I collect food for the needy, babysit and put up bulletin boards."
"I helped run an American Red Cross disaster shelter here in our county."
"Through the Beta Club, Food Pantry, and we hold a cheer leading clinic to raise money for St. Jude's."
"I go to the retirement home and talk with the residents as well as play with children by dressing up as a clown."
"Food panty, raise money for MDA, work at Union Mission."
"I volunteer at a physical therapy office. I help the physical therapist."
"Coached little league basketball, Missioin work and Special Olympics."